Eye Test For Parkinson’s May Lead To Painless Diagnosis

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Eye test for Parkinson’s disease may have been an unlikely answer to help diagnose and detect it back then, but scientists may be on to something that could revolutionize the way we evaluate the disease and develop new strategies to treat, better yet, prevent it.

Eye test for Parkinson’s Disease is better since it is non-invasive

This was the latest discovery by a team of scientists from the University College London (UCL), who claim that they may be able to find a cheaper and painless method to detect Parkinson’s disease.

This even goes way better because the researchers believe that it could even allow doctors to identify if a person is at risk and address symptoms before it develops.

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disease the affects an estimated 1 in every 500 people and has been determined to be the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide.

A revolutionary breakthrough

This breakthrough discovery has been ecstatically welcomes by may organizations, include Parkinson’s UK who claimed that this is a ‘significant step’ in the battle waged against this debilitating disease.

“These tests mean we might be able to intervene much earlier and more effectively treat people with this devastating condition,” says research lead Professor Francesca Cordeiro, adds that their research discovery is a “potentially revolutionary breakthrough in the early diagnosis and treatment of one of the world’s most debilitating diseases”.

The discovery came after the researchers were able to determine through their rests with lab rats that there are marked changes behind the eyes, even earlier than symptoms of the disease could start to show.

Symptoms and diagnosis

Presently, there are no means to find out is a person may incur the disease, which is usually characterized by tremors, muscle stiffness, deteriorating physical condition, atrophy and eventually lead to reduced quality of life.

What makes it more difficult is that the symptoms only begin to occur once the brain cells have already started to incur damage. To date, Parkinson’s disease could still not be diagnosed through any recognized means possible like blood tests or brain scans.

Parkinson’s disease is not the direct cause of death, but is more associated with the health complications that arises due to the effects of the disease.

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